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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-10-10

stocked with the purest and hest goods in The
and reliable phsrmscists Prices arr
MARSHALL n FISHER. Prnp'ts
ond Avenue and Nineteenth st, Rock Island.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-10-10

The result is medicine of unusual strength
and curative power, which effects cures here
tofore uneqIaIled. pecularities belong
exclusively to Hoods Sarsaparilla, and are
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-10-04

the society girl should have no conyic-
tons but the conviction of her own ac-
ceptability. She may have interests,
but no hobbies; at the same time she
must not be shallow. Still, the girl
who ignorantly aspires to society puts
clothes first and culture last, has more
or less contempt for every thing but her
fallals. 1t is manner that carries the
day, and good nature and kindness,
even in sOcietY-the art of making 9TH
ers happy, of amusing without appar-
ent effort, of being invariably agree
able. Moods should not belong to a
society girl if she would be success;
she must allow herself to be bored with
a smile, she must submit to disappoint-
ments with a bOnnaot, for society has its
price like other worldly things.-Har-
per'S Bazaar.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-10-04
THE SOCIETY GIRL.
Some Of the Elements Essential to Her Sue
cess I'm Polished Circles.

cess I'm Polished Circles.
Many people believe that the society
girl is synonymous with "the tailor
made girl" that she who can lay claim
to the most elaborate wardrobe. to the
most ambitious tournure. to- the latest
Partisan wrinkle, to the services of the
most extortionate mOdiSte, may call
herself society girl; but while they
are right in degree, they leave out
the essential elements. She is not
merely society girl by virtue of her
clothes any more than she is a student
on account of her library. Good
clothes are very excellent Us far as they
90. and sometimes they do not go a.
far as they ought, and the society girl
should take care not to follow this
style too closely. She must have
rare fund of health to endure the wear
and tear of the season-late hours,
standing OH her feet, thin garments.
drsughts, unwholesome food at unseas-
sonable hours; she must attract, not
on account of her toilettes-although
there is no denying that pretty and
becoming costume shows art and en-
hances the peculiar charms of the
wearer, if she happens to have any
and not always, by any means. on &C
COUNT of her beauty. since some of the
most successful have been plain
bellies. But she must have tact
and taste, and especially dis
erection; she must discover art and
culture. and know how to keep the
ball rolling under the most depressing
circumstances; she must not only know
how to talk, but how to listen elo-
quently; she must not be disputatious,
nor seem to show too much earnest
ness in the vital questions of the day.
Society is not the place in which to
preach woman's rights or other hob
bies; and she who would undertake to
set dinner-table by the ears, so to
speak, with an expression of her deep
est convictions, would be pretty certain
to receive no second invitation. There
are those who 90 so far as to saw that
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-10-04

-Colored individual (recently en-
gagged in stealing a watermelon, indig-
nsntly)-'1s you de gentleman dat
fired dat bullet froo dis yer watermelon
| hab under my arm?" Irate farmer
"Yes. / am" Colored individual
"Well. you clean done spilled de melon.
an come mighty nigh hittin' dis
niggah shu! 1 isn't gwine to take de
trouble to cay melons down to you
house no mo-. "-Harper'S Bazaar.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-10-04
THE COWBOY.

he came from the land of the setting sun,
This blazing star OF the srst degree
A cowboy bold, all ripe fo7 .un,
The home of the tenderfoot TO see.
His eyes were black and his hair was long;
The rim Of his hat was soft and wide;
And his gorgeous pants were Of buckskin strong
With wonderful fringes adown the side.
His mustang was kinky as ever you saw;
To the martial jingling of his spurs
The small boy listened with breathless awe;
He was terror to city ours.
A pistol was thrust through his lesthern belt
And knife reposed in his horseman's boot
Every inch king he doubtless felt;
A Western hero, right on the shoot!
He ogled the ladies day by day
As he gracefully ambled to take the air
Oh, he was a daisy, this cowboy gay,
One OF the brave who deserve the fair.
What sensitive maids, in his mind were seen
Hopelessly pining for him in vain,
What scalps Of swans, with jealousy green,
Adorned this conQuering lord OF the plain!
He welcomed the tanglefoot, hot and strong;
And terrible oaths this creature sworel
Tor deadly conflict he seemed to long,
His thirst was excessive for human gore,
Till he stirred up gentleman, mild and slim,
Who welded daily bloodless pen,
But 1.-The sand" was there, all the same, In him +;
And he went for the braggart right there and
then.
He reached for that cowboys ringlets long,
And pulled him down from his wild mustang;
He wiped the street with the buckskins strong
While the spurs resounded with merry
clang-
And he left him a wreck, did this man or might
With the broadcloth suit and a hat OF silk;
And the small boy sconed at the luckless wight
AS he imped to the lookup weak as nNk.
No more with the cattle the cowboy dwells;
His pistol and knife in the pawn-shop rest;
The mustang tipcart vile propeis;
He will gallop no more in the far South
west
And his master has studied his lesson well.
Let roughs and rowdies OF this take note,
IT'S the staggering towards who boast and
swell,
And man may be brave in broadcloth coat.
Boston Globe.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-10-04

1t is said the custom of kissing on
the forehead is losing in popularity.
even in the old countries. Ahai 1t
begins to dawn upon our struggling
intellect that the bang was created for
apurpose.- Binqha,at0n Republican.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-10-04
MARRIAGE GUIDE

So0 RACES EAne fi0tfS.
Elegant cloth and gilt binding. Sealed for So.
in money or postage stamps. Over fifty wonGeG
full pen pictures, showing who may marry who
not, why. Proper ageto marry. Who marry FIRST
Manhood. womanhood. Physical decay. VIII.
sho1ld marry. How life and happiness may BE
increased. Those married or about tc marry
should read it: of interest and value to every
thinking man and woman Popular edition,
Gx<s A1fv>~~ ~ yUxIrvsrv-W
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-06
Belated.

There are men who belong, by their
feelings and modes of thought, to the
seventeenth century, though their bod
lily existence is passed in the nineteenth.
Such a man was DR.. Routh, who died
in 1854, in his one hundredth year. In
his case it is not difficult to excuse a
lack of appreciation of " modern i'm
provements.n He had been president
when he died. His politics were those
of STAFFORD, his religion that of Laud,
the topic of his conversation the young
pretender and the Jacobite faction, and
he wore full-bottomed wig to the day
of his death. The old tory did not
quarrel with the nineteenth century, as
Mr.. Ruskin does with his contemptu-
Gus condemnation of railroads, bicycles
and modern modes of locomotion gen
orally. DR.. Routh simply renounced
the century and all its works. At long
intervals he visited London, but he
always travelled by coach called the
Star. The fare had been twenty
five shillings, which competition had
reduced to one guinea Unaware
of the reduction, DIR. Routh, on his
next visit to the metropolis, was
assisted to alight by the coachman,
to whom he handed twenty-five shill-
ings for his fare and an additional
half a crown as "tip" for the
respectful Jehu. 1.-The fare, Mr..
President, is reduced to guinea said
the coachman. The venerable man re-
hected, and then replied: " Sir, have
always paid twenty-five shillings, and l
always shall" Jehu bowed submits
sively and pocketed the extra four
shillings. An undergraduate having
appeared at the college three days after
the beginning of the term-he had
spent the time in London-the tutors
suggested that he should be rusticated.
"Three days late, is hep" answered
the venerable president, in his childish
treble. Well, sirs, there has been
heavy fall of snow, and as the gentle
man resides in Norfolk, no doubt the
coaches have been detained on the
road" But" urged the tutors, " he
could have reached Oxford in few
hours by railway" " Railway" ex-
claimed the president, incredulously.
All, well, l don't know anything
about that" The old man, though he
daily heard the whistles of the locomo-
tives running on the Great Western
railway, ignored the existence of the
road. He was tory of the class from
whom the genius of Disraeli rescued
the great conservative party and gave
it new lease of life Youths Cone
pdniOn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-06

Our party, about three hundred in num-
Der, a majority of whom were ladies,
entered from Place Denfert-Rochereau
Each person carries a candle, and as
the party stood in daylight, with candles
lighted, it made novel sight. Upon
entering narrow stairway we de-
scended distance of about fifty feet
Passages are then traversed, seemingly
in every direction, until we finally ar
rive at the point from which the pas
sages containing the skulls lead off in
all directions. The galleries and differ
ent compartments are completely lined
with skulls and human bones, which are
carefully arranged. Every now and
then small chapels made of bones are
passed. Even the sides of the pas
sages are formed by these walls of
bones which tower far above ones
head. In some of the passages the
bones are artistically arranged. 1t is a
weird sight to see the haring candles
in all directions and surrounded on
every side by such objects. A compare
lively small portion of the passages are
shown, and after wandering about amid
them for three-quarters of an hour we
once more traverse passages the walls
of which are of solid masonry, and
soon reach the staircase by which we
ascend. Here, however, is room
which should be noticed. From all APP
pearances it is a distinct excavation
made by the hands of man in the days
of long ago. The earth forms its walls
and ceiling; the latter is the interest
ing portion. 1t is conical in shape, and
the different layers of the earth are
shown, and it is wonderful the num-
Der of different colors there are. One
would suppose it to be painted. Pass
ing through this room we ascend the
staircase, at the top of which we are
besieged by at least dozen women
for the remnant of our g bongies."
We issue about five hundred yards from
where we entered. -Cor. Of Albany
Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-06
The CatacOmbs of Paris.

Upon reading an account in home
paper of the sewers of Paris the
thought arose that perhaps few words
concerning the catacombs would be of
interest. They were formerly subter-
ranean quarries, and from history we
find were worked as far back as the
Roman period, the composition yielded
being soft limestone, which hardened
upon exposure to the air. The catacombs
extended under the greater part of the
left banks of the Seine. In 1884 some
of the streets above these quarries be-
gan to sink, and the government, in
order to avert the danger, had piers and
supports constructed where the upper
surface lacked it. About this time the
removal of the bodies from some of the
cemeteries to these quarries was or
dered, and two years later they became
a vast charnel-house and were called
catacombs. A few years ago new pill
lars were erected, and channels have
been dug to carry off the water, and
openings to allow more air to enter,
until now there are over fifty entrances
at different parts of Paris. Visits are
made upon the first and third Satur-
days of the warmer months. Permis-
sion is to be obtained upon written ap-
plication to the Project de la Seine, and
it will be well to add that such applica-
ton must be made upon stamped paper.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-06
Soldiers Budget.
Pensions Granted.

To John Turney, East Albany, "a a
month and $3.50 arrears; disability,
rheumatism. William Craggy, East
Topsham, SO a month and Sl60 arrears !;
disability, rheumatism and resulting
disease of heart. John Brassaw, Mont
pelier, additional pension from S4 to
Sc month and 1922 arrears; disa-
bility, rheumatism, resulting disease of
heart, malarial poisoning and chronic
darrhpa. Roswell Holbrook, West
Randolph, 50 a month and 500 arrears /;
disability, gun-shot wound of head.
Zolva w. Chase, an increase from S4 to
IS month; disability, chronic diarrhpa
and resulting piles and rheumatism
Ira Holmes, Worcester, additional pen
sion from 80 to IS a month and $3.50
arrears; disability, gun-shot wound of
thumb, malarial poisoning and result
ing disease of liver and spleen, chronic
diarrhea and resulting piles. Andrew
G. Kenyon, West Corinth, SO month
and $f62 arrears; disability, rheu-
matism and resulting disease of heart.
Shubel Fair, North Calais, additional
pension from 50 to 2l2 month and
S75S arrears; disability, kidney disease
and fever and ague. George b. Nc
Allister, Montpelier, an increase from
"a to IS a month and S213 arrears.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-06
Rebel BattIe-FlagS.

Vermont has an interest in the dis
position of the rebel flags, some of
which were captured by her soldiers.
In 1865 Hon. Peter T. Washburn, then
adjutant and inspector-general of this
state, made application to the war de-
partment for permission to take into
the custody of the state the rebel flags
which had been captured by Vermont
troops, believing, as he said, that the
state was best entitled to the posses
sion of those evidences of daring of
her sons and would best preserve
them in such way that they could be
seen by their gallant captors. July I,
1865, the secretary of war acknowl-
edged the receipt of General Wash
burns request and added; 1t is the
intention of the secretary of war tC
recommend to congress the enactment
of law which will authorize rebel
flags to be delivered to the state author
tiles, but, under existing legislation, he
is required to keep them in the hands
of the Acknowledgement of the army"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-06
Sport as Il Means and as an End.

At no time in the history of our coun-
try has more attention been given to
the subject of physical training than is
given to it at the present day. Schools,
colleges and Christian associations are
building costly gymnasia, while athletic
organizations, ball-clubs, boat-clubs,
tennis-clubs, ETC., are forming in many
of our towns and cities. Fifteen thou
sand dollars is expended annually to
bring the Yale and Harvard boat-crews
together at New London, and it is es-
timated that fifty thousand dollars does
not meet the yearly expenses of the
athletic organizations of these two uni
yersities. Add to this sum the cost of
athletic sports to the smaller colleges
and city clubs, and the total would foot
up in the millions. The object of this
outlay is to vanquish some rival club,
to win championship to beat the rec
ord, or to furnish recreation and amuse-
ment to those who are willing to pay
for it. With the representatives of our
institutions of learning, and with por-
ton Of the intelligent public, the OBJ
iect of the encouragement given to
athletics is to counterfeit the enervating
tendency of the times and to improve
the health, strength and vigor of our
youth. This being the fact the ques-
tons at once arise, How large proper
ton of young men in the land systemat-
ically practice athletics? Probably
less than one per cent, How large
proportion of those who are members
of athletic organizations take an active
part in the sports fostered and patron
lied by their respective clubs ? Prob
ably less than ten per cent. In the
opinion of the writer, the cause for so
little active interest in athletics is an
increasing tendency with us as a peo-
pie to pursue sport as an end in itself
rather than means to an end. In
making excellence in the achievement
the primary object of athletic eXer-
cises we rob them of half their value. -
D. 4. Sargent, MD, in ScriJner'S
Mdqazine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-06
A Night with Garfield.

The Chicago Inter Ocean prints the
following story, told by prominent
business man of that city: " was one
of the men sent to Shiloh in 1862 to
look after the wounded. My companion
was prominent banker, and on our ar
rival at night we set out to find the
headquarters of the officer who was to
assist us in our work. Any one at all
familiar with the ground at Pittsburg
Landing or with the condition of affairs
that prevailed after the battle will
understand the difficulties in our way.
We knew nothing of the ground, and
we knew little about army affairs or the
position of the several commands. We
stumbled about, getting into one camp
and another, but not finding the division
headquarters to which we had been di-
rected to report. We were courteously
received at the different headquarters
but the atmosphere was eminently mill
tary, if not forbidding. At least the
courteous officers were notsympathetic
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-06

and while they offered us such enter
tainment as was common in the army,
and placed themselves at our service,
we did not feel that we would be made
welcome as guests. We resolved to
keep up our search, and finally we real
lied that we were lost | cannot re-
member of ever having had more dis
NAL feeling of inconsistencies than had
as we stumbled through the woods on
that night. At last we came to line of
sentries, and the first question | asked
was what command the men belonged
to. They answered that they were part
of the Twentieth Brigade, commanded
by General Garfield. We two tired and
footsore men threw up our hats, because
here we knew we would find welcome.
| had known Garfield when he was
member of the Ohio senate, and / felt
that l could 90 to his tent very much as
one old farmer goes to the house of
another, almost demanding hospitality.
Then came the thought that possibly
military life had brought change to Gar
field, as it had to the other gentlemen
we had met during the evening, and
after all our hat-throwing we went to
his headquarters not in doubt as to
how Garfield would receive us, but with
some misgivings as to how the circum-
stances of his position would influence
him. Garfield had changed in good
many ways, but in welcoming us he
was the hearty, spontaneously sympa-
thetic Garfield of old, easy as an old
shoe and honestly glad to see us. He
began at once the planning for our en-
] tn,, o,,,,, nj n
his tent, but he said at once that he and
the captain who shared his quarters
could sleep elsewhere and that we
might have their cot. He could pro-
vide lunch without difficulty, he could
give us a bed without inconvenience to
himself, and he insisted that we should
remain with him during the night, but
on one condition. He said that there
was woodtick burrowing in his back
and the time had come for it to be re-
moved. He had stood it as long as he
was going to stand it, and if my friend
the banker would take his penknife
and cut it out we could stay all night.
He asked to see the penknife which my
friend carried, and, pronouncing it sat-
isfactory, announced that the operation
would be proceeded with. Thereupon
without ceremony, he pulled his shirt
off over his head, exposing his broad
shapely shoulders and back, and with a
boyish eagerness called our attention
to the woodtick half imbedded in the
flesh. | took the candle and my friend
took his penknife, and we proceeded
to take that tick off. The general pre-
faced the operation with the remark
that if the work was not well performed
he would court-martial us both, and
laughed heartily to myself at the spec
tacle of two dignified civilians bending
over the back of the dignified brigadier
general, and as we stood there all my
homesickness left, and the informally
and nominees of this big-hearted mar
made his headquarters seem veritablt
home to u.s."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-06
Questions Answered.

II. s., worcestershire records of
the service of the soldiers, including
hospital record are kept in a fre-proof
vault at the state-house in Montpelier.
Some of the hospital records are on
sheets of paper never transferred to
the record books. The adiutant and
inspector-general of this state has the
custody of the records. He resides in
Burlington but has an agent at Mont
pelier. A letter addressed to him at
Burlington for any information from
the records would receive prompt atten-
ton.
G.. W., LEBANON, n. H.-The latest
and best work on pension laws is the
digest of the laws of the United States
governing the granting of army and
navy pensions and bounty land war
rants, decisions of the secretary of the
interior and rulings and orders of the
commissioner of pensions, published at
Washington in 1855. The work was
compiled by officers of the pension
office for use in that bureau, and only a
limited number of copies were printed.
A few have been sold, however, for
$3.50 per volume. 1t contains between
six and seven hundred pages.
G. NJ. T., NORTH AsHBURNHAM,
MAss.-Where dependent mother of
a deceased soldier applies for pension
and it is not granted until after her
death, her husband may be reimbursed
for the expenses of her last sickness
and burial from the arrears of pension.
This is according to recent decision
of the secretary of the interior revers-
ing the action of the commissioner of
pensions in refusing to allow the
husband of the pensioner pay for the
expenses of the last sickness and burial
of his wife. Application for reimburse
ment in such cases should be made to
the third auditor, United States treas
ury, Washington, ID. G.. 1t is held
that the last sickness contemplated by
the law is the immediate attack which
ends in death. If the attack is not
acute it is regarded as commencing at
the time the pensiOner became so i'll as
to require the regular and daily attend.
ance of physician or nurse constantly
until death.
l.. X, NORTIIFlELD.-Thi cor
respondent complains that the board OF
surgeons at White River Junction KEEP
him waiting last week over five hours
for an examination, and then he had tC
return home without it. lie says the
board had only five soldiers to examine
on the day he appeared for eXamina
ton that they invited him to come
again this week, but that his order for the
examination expired last week and ht
did not suppose he could be examined
after the expiration of the order from
the pension office. He desires to know
what to do to make progress in his case
AnSWer.-Make a statement of fac
under oath and send it to the pension
office. The commissioner of pensions
will take some action that will secure
you speedy and a fair examination
By the act of congress approved Marcl
LIST, 1887, medical boards are required
to examine all applicants, not to ex
coed twenty, who apply on single day
if practicable. The examining boarC
receives fee of So for the eXamina
ton of each applicant, when five or
less number are examined on any on
day, and So for the examination of eacl
additional applicant on such day.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-06
Mistellamp.
Blue Skies.

Sad twilight trails her heavy clouds
Into the night. One sullen zone
OF mist, in nearer circling shrouds,
Sweeps out the hills our love has known.
Cold blasts go sobbing overhead,
When. bark! the west winds herald cries.
And by his sweet persuasion led
Behold one far, faint sparkle sped
Through rlfted mists. | keep glad eyes,
Dream happy things. Above are spread
Blue skies
Life, eager heart of mine, Is Storm
Thou canst not part the lowering years.
Closer and deeper phantoms FORM
Thy near horizon wells in tears.
The world drifts from thy yearnng sight
But bark what free wind hither flies,
Singing of strange unseen delight
A star shines in the death-wrack's flight
Dream thou of morn and paradise;
over thy grave shall watch tonight
Blue skiesl
EIIoU IT. NINE,